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Yarrow's Grasshopper

Melanoplus yarrowii

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in California.January 56, February 49, March 51, April 63, May 61, June 45, July 39, August 48, September 96, October 118, November 88, December 50.
United States1,283
California620
Arizona365
Utah155
Nevada78
Colorado37
New Mexico11
Texas6
Kansas4
New Hampshire3

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderGrasshoppers, Crickets, and Katydids · Orthoptera
FamilyShort-horned Grasshoppers · Acrididae
GenusNorth American Spur-throated Grasshoppers · Melanoplus

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